Will artificial intelligence really kill us all?

It's one of the oldest plots in science fiction: Humans losing control to computers. But this summer, the old trope of AI going rogue left the realm of science fiction, and it happened inside an unmarked San Francisco building -- the headquarters of AI giant OpenAI .
The incident has been dominating the news. You may even have heard the phrase "human extinction."
Maybe you've tried out ChatGPT or Claude . AIs like these can generate writing, music, video or art. But the big AI companies are racing to make AI much more powerful – super-intelligent, in fact. And in May, something went very wrong.
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